Quotes About Imagination

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Art is as useful as bread.

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.

Yaln?z yazarlar? deÄŸil, genellikle bütün sanatç?lar?, ya yar? deli ya da tam deli görmek eÄŸilimi vard?r. Kimi sanatç?lar da yapmac?k yollarla deliliÄŸe özenerek okurlar?n ilgisini t?rnaklarlar.

Geceleri bile, daha ÅŸimdiden, uykumda matematik yap?yorum. Dün gece örneÄŸin, iki defa uyan?p ka??da kaleme sar?ld?m. Yaln?zl?k hayal alemini, matematik de soyutlama kabiliyetini aç?yor; korkunç ÅŸeyler hayal ediyorum. Hayret, insan nas?l da kendini verdiÄŸi bilimle özdeÅŸleÅŸiyor. -Ali Nesin

Ben ÅŸuna inan?r?m; bir insan sürekli kitap okursa yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ okuduÄŸu kitaplar yüzüne iÅŸlenir, çirkinler bile yüzlerine iÅŸlenen kitapla güzelleÅŸir, sevimlileÅŸir.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.

It isn't the gold that changes man, it is the power which gold gives to man that changes the soul of man. This power, though, is only imaginary. If not recognized by other men, it does not exist.

It is always more convenient to dream of what might be.

If this was a dream, he didn't want to wake up.

What were you doing out here?" He chuckled. "Looking for aliens. What else?

Complex numbers taught me on reasonable philosophy; that you can imagine anything what you don't have in real life.

When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going."

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Dr. Emmett Brown Roads Where we're going we don't need roads.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them; for the witches themselves are imaginative; and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.